Fullerene C60 |
HeLa; MEF; MCF-7 |
Atg5 |
Autophagy-mediated
chemosensitization in cancer cells |
(Zhang et al., 2009) |
Single-walled carbon nanotubes |
Primary glia from CRND8 AD
murine |
mTOR-S6K |
Autophagy induction and lysosomal activation |
(H. Liu et al., 2011) |
Graphene oxide |
HeLa; GFP-Htt(Q74)/PC12 |
PtdIns3K and
MEK/ERK1/2 |
Activation of autophagy and elimination of ubiquitinated
mutant Huntington protein |
(Jin et al.,
2016) |
Silver nanoparticles |
Primary MEF; Hela |
PtdIns3K |
Autophagy
induction, inhibition of autophagy enhances the anti-cancer activity of
silver nanoparticles |
(J. Lin et al.,
2014) |
Iron oxide |
A549; IMR-90 |
Akt-AMPK-mTOR |
Selective induction
of autophagy and killing the cancer cells |
(Akhtar et al., 2012) |
Bismuth nanoparticles |
HEK293 |
AMPK/mTOR |
Autophagy
induction |
(Y. Liu et al.,
2018) |